Isaiah 38:5

God tells Hezekiah he has heard his prayer, seen his tears, and will add fifteen years to his life. God graciously grants a longer life in answer to prayer.

Cross-references · 24

• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
• Ps 34:5–6Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.
• Rev 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
• Luke 1:13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
• Ps 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
• Ps 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
• 2 Kgs 19:20Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
• 2 Cor 7:6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
• Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
• Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.
• Isa 7:13–14Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
• Ps 89:3–4You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
• 1 Kgs 9:4–5And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
• Acts 27:24and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’
• 1 Kgs 8:25Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
• 1 Kgs 11:12–13Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
• 1 Kgs 15:4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
• 2 Sam 7:3–5And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
• 2 Kgs 18:2He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
• 1 Chr 17:2–4And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
• Ps 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
• 2 Chr 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
• Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
• 2 Kgs 18:13In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

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